“He is a player with a good eye and good technique and is very agile,” Wenger told Sports Illustrated in July.

“He has the ambition to find the ball on the field. So he’s the kind of player who could be of use to the United States. He’s in some ways the type of player the US was missing in the World Cup.”

With his US citizenship in place it is expected that Zelalem will be eligible to play for the USA in the imminent future but until FIFA approve it, he could still pledge his future to Germany or Ethiopia.

How important is it that Gedion Zelalem could be playing for the USMNT in the future?